Dorking

Harishbabu Rengaraj

What is it?

The way of refining our search Queries.
A dork query, sometimes just referred to as a dork, is a search string that uses advanced search operators to find information that is not readily available on a website.
Google dorking, can return information that is difficult to locate through simple search queries.
Is it even Legal? Yes, we are getting open and readily available information.

Where i got this?

Basic Dorks

Query	Description
"search query"	Get result for exact words in quotes.
site:<QDN>	Do search only that domain.
inurl:"query"	show the result where the query in url.
AND OR	Can use logical operator to filter the results.

Contd.

Query	Description
intext:"query"	searches only body text (i.e., ignores link text, URLs, and titles).
related:<QDN>	finds pages that are related to the specified page.
cache:	Will index last snapshot even the site is unavailable.

Also, Google has "Advanced Search Option".

Downsides

A simple query like this can reveal juicy information on general poke around. filetype:config inurl:web.config inurl:ftp
Malicious Actors can use this as a tool to do reconnaissance on specific targets.

How to prevent from Dorking?

Use robots.txt file. Which may present in / folder of the websites.
It can manage crawl traffic. Its a .gitignore file for search engines(a.k.a Web Crawlers).
Also to prevent admin panel, secrets, and multimedia files from appearing in Google search results.

robots.txt

        User-Agent: *
        Disallow: /search
        Disallow: /search*
        Disallow: /wp-admin/*
        Sitemap: https://site.com/static/files/sitemap.xml

Disclaimer

USE IT WISELY & RESPONSIBILY.